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Ancient Egyptian LifeThe river Nile:Made Egyptian farmland good for growing crops.Wealth:Sold crops and became wealthy.Trade:Egyptians built ships and used them to buy and sell.Religion:Egyptians believed in many gods and life after death.Writing:Egyptians invented hieroglyphics and papyrus paper.…read more

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Medical Improvements. Specialist doctors: Bronze tools: Experts in treating a Wealthy Egyptians couldparticular part of the body. pay craftsmen to make Wealthy Egyptians could stronger, sharper medical afford this. tools. Herbal Remedies: Written Records: Brought herbs from other began to write downcountries and built up large patients symptoms and collections to make better cures used in order to treat remedies future patients. Knowledge of body: due to religious reasons, Channels theory: Egyptians embalmed the Natural idea on how thebody. This gave them good body became ill, based on understanding of where the channels in the Nile. internal organs were placed.…read more

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Surgery.Egyptians could do small simple surgery. For example, mending a broken nose.Egyptians had bronze tools which were sharper and more accurate that prehistoric times.Egyptians were unable to stop pain or infection during surgery.…read more

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Idea's about disease...· Gods: Egyptians believed the goddess Sekhmet could bring disease.· Channels theory: When the channels of the body are blocked, one is unwell. This theory was based on the channels in the Nile being blocked, and thus leading to dead crops. This was a natural theory.…read more

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Religion and Embalming.Egyptians embalmed the body for religious reasons. You would need your organs for life after death.· Embalming: means removing the organs and preserving the body by drying it with salt.· Embalming helped improve medical knowledge-it lead to Egyptians seeing where different organs were.· Embalming hindered medical knowledge because the Egyptians did not take the heart out. Therefore they never worked out what the heart did. (thought it controlled body!)…read more